[Hualien] On November 17, 2000, the Hualien Center of The SMCH Association and the Hualien Branch of Taiwan After-care Association jointly offered a counseling service workshop - "A Dialogue with Life" - to express love and concern for inmates at Hualien Prison. The activity was intended to guide the inmates to conduct a dialogue with life, so that they could observe the rigors of life and the unyielding will for survival that is common in all of creation. This approach was meant to rekindle an undying love for life in the participants.

About three hundred female inmates took part in this one-day activity, which featured a slide presentation to illustrate the meaning behind conducting a dialogue with life and how myriad beings display the life-force, each having its own special role, way of existence, and unavoidable ordeals that it must face. For examples, big trees, tiny blades of grass, birds, insects, and fish all have their individual means of survival. When they encounter difficulties in life, they display the ingenious and incredible functions that Creation has bestowed on them.

We also taught the female inmates the Convenient Method of meditation, hoping to help them emotionally adjust to personal vicissitudes and setbacks, and thus embark on a new life.